Review: 'White House Plumbers' reenacts the mishaps of Watergate's operatives for laughs
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
May 01, 2023
4 minutes
Outside of home repair, the word "plumbers" nowadays most quickly brings to mind a pair of Italian brothers in overalls. In an earlier time, it might have conjured up the group behind the caper that led to a cover-up that led to a committee that led to a presidential resignation, and that has doomed us to live forever with the suffix "-gate" attached to any kind of scandal.
While this morsel of history has been portrayed in pop culture over the decades, including in last year's "Gaslit," it was not until now, half a century after the fact, that the men who planned the bugging of
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